Chrissie Hynde Actually Likes Something: Taylor Swift’s “Cleveland!”

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Chrissie Hynde is famously not easy to impress and has even been accused of being grumpy. The Pretenders icon is often going on rants — rants about composers, concertgoers, the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, and more. However, she likes Taylor Swift's polarizing new song "Cleveland!"Following the release of The Life Of A Showgirl: The Encore, Swift has the #1 album and #1 song this week (ending Ella Langley's record-breaking reign). The Life Of A Showgirl now has more top 10 hits than any album in history. Despite these achievements, "Cleveland!" has been the target of much criticism because, well, it's a terrible song. But Chrissie Hynde doesn't think so. On Friday (Oct. 2), she shared an update with fans, saying, "I was thrilled to hear Taylor Swift's new song, Cleveland.""Now there's a girl who stays on the cutting edge…. in fact, she might be the only person in history who has actually written a song about Cleveland," she continued, obviously incorrectly (there are probably a lot of good examples of songs about Cleveland, but most recently Squirrel Flower released her Say A Prayer To The Gods Of Getting Going single "Cleveland" in August). "Although come to think of it, I did comm...

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